The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-08-18
ARP,s PHILOSOPHY.
The Northern "Cranks" Who Fuss About
the Negro.

Well, l reckon we WILL all have 10 gel
mad again and not play with our north
ern brethren any more. AS Sam Jones
says, it does look like we amt the same
sort of cattle. didn't think they would
raise such howl about little thing
like the Glenn bill. I wish they had told
us beforehand that they would get mad
about it if we passed it. Mr.. Glenn is a
harmonious man and never would have
introduced it if he had known it would
have raised such rumpus. Our people
didn't care much about it, nohow. The
white and colored schools are not going
to mix down South, bill or no bill. If a
northern white man comes down here to
teach a colored school and chooses to
take his own children into it, we don't
care copper. But the coiored children
can't come into the white schools, that's
certain. They don't want to. Nothing
is more surely settled than that the two
races don't want to mix. 1t is disagree.
able all round They don't want the
same churches, nor hotels, nor railroad
cars. 1t is against nature and ne can't
help it. This thing they call the univer.
sal neighborhood of man sounds very
we'll until it invades our scc-;9.system
and then it surrenders. 1t always has
surrendered. The Jews wouldn't mix
with the Samaritans and they don't mix
with the Gentiles now to any great
extent except in a business way. They
don't marry with us except once in a
while and then it always makes fuss in
the family-tbat is in the Jew family.
We white folks don't take on and had
just as leave have one of the boys marry
rich, pretty Jewess as not. Society has
its castles and big circles and little circles
and boundary lines everywhere and we
can't help it for mankind were built that
way. Wealth makes it, culture makes it,
color makes it, race makes it, and even
religion makes it. And the devil makes
it too, for it is fact that the professional
burglars in the cities won't associate with
the pickpockets and sneak thieves. They
outrank them socially. Just after the
war it was amusing to see the disgust
that the old time free negroes had for the
new set that had just been lifted up to
their level. There were few around
Rome who were born free and had never
mixed with the slaves and held them in
contempt. In fact there YVES one who
owned slaves and farm, and he felt
aggrieved and perplexed when his rights
were invaded. Society is an institution
that laws csn't control. Blackstone says
that mans house is his castle, and just
so his social rights are sacred. The dirty
tramp may come to my house and beg
his breakfast and set on the back steps
and eat it, but will not have him for a
companion just because he is human
being. I will choose my company and
not intrude where I am not wanted more
than they. I will choose my children's
company as far as can. Their charac'
ters are formed in early youth-in their
school days and their schoolmates have a
great deal to do with it. They shall not
go to school with negro children. If the
northern people want a reason 1 will just
say its none of your business. Our indig.
nation becomes painful when asked such
question. The fauatical fools have
goaded us long enough about our duty to
the negro. They have got one in a
thousand up there and don't know any
thing about it. If there were only one
in hundred down here We wouldent
care. We don't mind riding with them
in the railroad cars. We do ride with
them on every train, for it is only brief
contact and neither race is offended, but
the ladies' car is their special privilege
their castle-and on many trains white
men are excluded unless they have ladies
in charge. 1 was excluded the other day
in going from Chattanooga to Nashville.
Not long ago negro excursion boarded
the train at Stone Mountain. They we're
we'll dressed and we'll behaved, and as
there we're only half dozen of US in
the ladies' car We vacated it for them,
and the kind-hearted conductor made
room for us in the sleeper. Nobody
down South has hatred or contempt for
the negro; we like him; we respect him
we mix with him every way but socially.
They don't invite us to their meetings
and frolics and excursions, and we don't
invite them to ours, and both races are
content. We build their churches and
schoolhouses all over the country. Our
doctors attend on their sick and our law
yers on their criminals and get nothing
for it. Our wives and mothers minister
to their wants and supply them with
medicine. When their children steal
from US we hush it up for fear they will
get in the chain gang. No, those folks
away up North don't know anything
about it and they never will know from
northern literature. But they do know
in New Jersey. The negroes got thick
at Asbury park that the white folks
couldent see the ocean, nor the horizon
nor the sun set nor the moon rise and 50
the owners got desperate and excluded
them. This is little worse than has
ever been done down South. Not a
negro now dares to 60 to Asbury park,
and I read the other day in northern
paper where little orphan colored girl
was refused admission into an asylum
because of her color. That was in the
heavenly kingdom Of Massachusetts,.
tell you what is fact. Those people up
there don't like US and they don't want
to. Whether it is because we are the
sheep and they are the goats, or they are